Progress (%) off on viewer?

[MDMullins]

I use the percentage indicator to estimate effective word count. Has something changed for how the viewer calculates percentage?

I have fields for pages and word count via the Count Pages plugin — then a field for offset by where the main text stops. For instance, a nonfiction book which Count Pages reports as 103,500 words, but which the viewer says really terminates at 31% (everything after that being back matter: end notes, bibliography, etc.) would thus result in an effective word count of about 32k. In actuality thought this books terminates closer to the 66% mark.

I've checked Count Pages for accuracy and believe that it is giving me an accurate count, putting the onus back on the viewer. For some reason the viewer thinks it's 31% of the way into a book when — by word count — it's actually much further.

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Upon further inspection it seems both my Kindle and Calibre viewer think the main part of the book ends at about 1/3 through. However, when I copy over the text to Calibre Scrivener and have it count the words it says that the main text is about 66k and the whole book about 100k, meaning that the main text should be terminating at about 66%, not the reported 31%.

It seems that Count Pages is accurate. And yet both Kindle and Calibre agree on percentages. And yet both these things cannot be true.

I use page/words counts daily if not hourly in my reading — have done so for years — and until now everything has been hunky-dory.

I can't figure this one out.

[MDMullins]

That should have read

…However, when I copy over the text to Scrivener and have it count the words it says…

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by MDMullins

That should have read

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I fixed for you.

Sorry, no idea about the issue itself.

BR

[kovidgoyal]

Impossible to say without access to the book in question. And note that book progress is not a simple word count. It takes things like images into account as well.

[MDMullins]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Impossible to say without access to the book in question. And note that book progress is not a simple word count. It takes things like images into account as well.

I found a workaround. I simply import an additional copy of each book into Calibre, edit the book to delete everything that isn't the main text, and the ratio between the word counts between the two resulting book gives me an accurate percentage and thus an accurate effective word count.